Photo Focus Craftership wins award at Wiki Loves Living Heritage
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The photo "Filming the intangible heritage of making a giant in Flanders" by Femke den Hollander won the first prize of the Belgian photo entries for 'Wiki Loves Safeguarding Living Heritage in Europe' on 12 December 2023!
Photo about filming living heritage
The winning photo was taken as part of the Focus Craftership project on audiovisual documentation of intangible heritage.
It shows videographer and bridge builder Alexander Kerkhof and members of Giants in Flanders npo building a giant's head in Wingene. Together with Histories ngo, they conducted a research project on the building of giants in Flanders. The trajectory resulted in a documentary. You can watch the trailer of this film here.
Belgian winner
The Belgian photo campaign is part of a larger European photo competition from the European Network of Focal Points for the 2003 Unesco Convention (ENFP) and ran from 1 July to 30 September 2023.
The occasion for this special edition was the festive year 2023 celebrating the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Heritage.
The project was a collaboration of Workshop intangible heritage (BE), the Flemish Unesco Commission and Wikimedia Belgium, with the cooperation of the Flemish Department of Culture, Youth and Media.
The other winners can be found here.
#WikiLovesLivingHeritage
To mark the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO 2003 Convention, the international campaign 'Wiki Loves Living Heritage' invited people around the world to capture intangible cultural heritage in text and images and share them through the Wikimedia platforms.
The campaign collected photos, videos and documentation of intangible heritage and is making them open and accessible through the Wikimedia channels: Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikipedia.
In doing so, Wiki Loves Living Heritage gives great visibility both to the intangible heritage included in the recognised Inventories and UNESCO lists within the 181 member states of the UNESCO 2003 Convention, but also to the great diversity of other intangible heritage outside.
More information on both the international and Belgian campaign can be found here.
